Zuck says east coast is actually the best coast

So what it snows there in October — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said he prefers Boston over Silicon Valley.

In an interview with Y Combinator’s Startup School, Zuckerberg said if he could do it all over again, he’d choose Boston for his social media headquarters.

“If I were starting now, I would do things very differently,” he said. “I didn’t know anything. In Silicon Valley, you get this feeling that you have to be out here. But it’s not the only place to be. If I were starting now, I would have stayed in Boston.”

Zuckerberg, who came up with Facebook while at Harvard University, spoke about the early days of the company, when it was just him and his friends working out of their house. He said they moved out to Silicon Valley the summer of his sophomore year because it was this “magical place where all these start-ups come from.”

“And maybe one day we’ll make a start-up,” he said.

“We didn’t expect it to be a company, initially,” Zuckerberg said. “We were just building this thing because we thought it was awesome.”